From Michelin starred kitchens to guest starring on Sesame Street, chef Melissa King has done it all, including breaking records on Top Chef.

Tonight, she shares her brief but spectacular take on food identity and the family recipes behind her debut book, Cook Like a King.

I don't know what mom gives their child a Chinese speak for their birthday, but my mom gave me one when I was about 10 years old.

I remember doing everything with that knife

that was what I would slice bok choy with and julia and ginger.

I was like, I am going to be a chef.

I know that I want to cook. I love food so much.

I had never really seen anyone that looked like me that cooked,

other than Julia Child and Martin Yan.

I watched them obsessively on PBS as a kid.

And it was seeing a woman and an Asian man cooking.

That was everything.

By like age 10 or so, I was cooking for the family.

My parents would come home late from work.

I was putting dinner on the table.

I went to a traditional college.

Then I went to culinary school and then moved to San Francisco,

built my career in Michelin Star Kitchens out here,

and I never looked back.

I went on a show called Top Chef.

I competed twice.

After I came out of that experience, so many people reached out

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